TY - ADVS AU - Dall,John AU - Granger,Farley AU - Hamilton,Patrick AU - Hitchcock,Alfred AU - Stewart,James ED - Universal Pictures (Firm) TI - Rope SN - 0783254660 PY - 2000/// CY - Universal City, CA PB - Universal KW - Deception KW - Drama KW - DVD KW - Murder KW - Strangling KW - Detective and mystery films KW - Feature films KW - Motion pictures, British KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired KW - local N1 - Videodisc release of the 1948 motion picture; Directors of photography, Joseph Valentine, William V. Skall ; film editor, William H. Ziegler ; adapted by Hume Cronyn from the play by Patrick Hamilton ; screenplay by Arthur Laurents ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock; James Stewart, Farley Granger, John Dall, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, Joan Chandler; Rated PG N2 - Two friends strangle a classmate and invite his family and mutual friends to dinner--with the body stuffed inside the trunk for a buffet table. Inspired by the Leopold-Loeb murder ER -